Dr Ed Fitzgerald

𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 "𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀"🌎 Mapping hospital brands in each country, based on research from Brand Finance's Global Top 250 Hospitals 2026. There's lots to un-pick in this report... ➡️linkedin.com/posts/dredward… #Healthcare #KPMG #Hospitals

Recent reports of private firms recruiting GPs to deliver care from overseas signal a shift from remote consulting within local services to provision untethered from geography. Policymakers must consider whether this risks weakening primary care bmj.com/content/392/bm…

Mapped: The Global Cost of Living Index 2026 💸 visualcapitalist.com/2026-global-co…

Results from the 2025 Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA) show that 93% of NHS providers have an electronic patient record (EPR) but only 30% have fully integrated bi-directional data flows. eu1.hubs.ly/H0t1Zl_0

New Review on #CancerVaccines: John Haanen and colleagues highlight insights from recent clinical trials and discuss critical factors for optimization, with a focus on proxies for efficacy, #neoantigen selection, modular platforms and early intervention. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Happy 50th birthday Association of Surgeons in Training @ASiTofficial 🎉 Memorable #Manchester weekend celebrating 50 years of training, advocacy and support with many Past Presidents at this year's international conference ➡️linkedin.com/posts/dredward… #Surgery #ASiT50 #ASiT2026

From digital innovations to community-based care, Kenya is leading the way in universal health coverage. #HealthWorks Meet the nurses and health workers making a difference: wrld.bg/uJsu50YtXPT

Healthcare services revenue increased 8.6% year-over-year in 2025. #Echobox=1773431583-4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">modernhealthcare.com/providers/mh-h…

Long Covid affects people of all ages and includes a myriad of post-acute and long-term adverse health effects caused by the infection. ⁠ ⁠ A 2024 #SciencePerspective highlighted the efforts made to understand this public health concern, what is known about the condition, and its wide-reaching effects on the risk of developing other chronic diseases. ⁠ Despite increasing knowledge of the mechanisms, epidemiology, and prevention, several challenges remain. First, the care needs of people experiencing Long Covid are consistently not met, and patients are often met with skepticism and dismissal of symptoms. Second, the lack of consensus on terms, definitions, and clinical trial endpoints for Long Covid, as well as the lack of animal models that can capture the breadth of Long Covid phenotype, are slowing progress and hampering the discovery of drugs that could improve patient health.⁠ ⁠ Addressing these challenges would not only provide insights into Long Covid but also other infection-associated chronic illnesses that have underappreciated long-term health impacts like myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).⁠ ⁠ Learn more on #LongCovidAwarenessDay: scim.ag/3DCyV2Q

Good health is the foundation of prosperity. Every health job creates up to 3.4 more jobs in related sectors! The @WorldBank Group is working to reach 1.5B people with quality, affordable care by 2030—unlocking 29 million new jobs. #HealthWorks Watch & share:

33% of deaths caused by circulatory diseases 🏥🫀 In 2023, there were 4.84 million deaths among EU residents, mostly caused by circulatory diseases (1.59 million), cancer (1.16 million) and respiratory diseases (0.38 million). 👉 link.europa.eu/9j73bH

At Barbados’ polyclinics, nurses are being trained in WHO’s mhGAP to better support perinatal mental health. Early care for parents means healthier outcomes for mothers, babies, and our communities. 🌱👶🏽 #MentalHealthMatters #mhGAP

With the NHS working towards key targets this spring, we've updated our #QualityWatch performance dashboard with the latest statistics. See how the NHS is performing. 📊 👉 buff.ly/YcWcVJ2

Corridor care has been officially defined by NHS England as patients spending “at least 45 minutes” in a clinically inappropriate area, as part of new measures to tackle the crisis. bmj.com/content/392/bm…

4.6B lack essential health services; 2.1B face financial hardship. At the Tokyo UHC Forum, countries launched Compacts to expand primary care, protect households, and strengthen the workforce. #HealthWorks Watch the replay: wrld.bg/QUPL50XExl6

Despite comprising half the global population, women's health remaining a significant blind spot in modern medicine. A new Viewpoint outlines FemTech, technology-enabled solutions to address the barriers & inequalities in care 👉 spkl.io/6015AatH1 #IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” Yet globally, we still pay more to fix ill health than the causes of ill health. This is not sustainable. There's a few points I continually return to on this topic... ➡️linkedin.com/posts/dredward… #Healthcare #KPMG #HealthPolicy

New study aimed to understand costs for caregivers who were providing informal care to individuals living with brain health disorders — alarmingly, there were an estimated 314.5 billion hours of unpaid care & $1.7 trillion lost globally from 2000–2021 ↓ ms.spr.ly/6012QbOf0

NEW: Increasing the use of specialist “advice and guidance” to GPs is a key part of ambitions to bring down NHS waiting lists. But as @HSJnews coverage of our new #qualitywatch analysis shows, it may not be the silver bullet that’s hoped for. [1/2] hsj.co.uk/quality-and-pe…

📊 Explore updated data on health, disease, and mortality around the world— What are the leading risk factors that can lead to premature death? You can see the top ones globally in the chart here. What do people die from? How many people suffer from mental illness, or are living with HIV/AIDS? The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study aims to answer these and many other questions related to health, disease, and mortality. They provide estimates across hundreds of indicators for every country in the world over the last decades. One of the largest efforts of its kind, the GBD study is published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (@IHME_UW) at the University of Washington. Our colleague Fiona Spooner recently updated more than 500 (!) of our charts with the latest release of the GBD study.